Tuesday, November 15, 2016

More than 70% of Anti-Trump protesters arrested in Oregon didn't vote in Oregon. Four of 112 arrested were under age 18 and thus not eligible to vote. At least 79 demonstrators either didn't vote or weren't registered to vote in Oregon-KGW, 11/15/16

KGW
compiled a list of the 112 people arrested by the Portland Police
Bureau during recent protests. Those names and ages, provided by police,
were then compared to state voter logs by Multnomah County Elections
officials.

Records show 39 of the protesters arrested were
registered in the state but didn’t return a ballot for the November 8
election. Thirty-six of the demonstrators taken into custody weren’t
registered to vote in Oregon.

Kevin Grigsby was one of 71
arrested during the Saturday night protest. He said he didn't do
anything wrong, but told KGW he also did not vote.

"I did not
(vote) and the reason why is because we know that the electoral college
is really what matters the most. And I think that we need to change that
because your vote doesn’t matter if you don’t have enough electoral
college points.," said Grigsby.

Statewide, nearly 79 percent of Oregon's registered voters cast their
ballots, representing just over 2 million votes. While nearly 9 out of
every 10 Republican and Democratic voters did vote, only 63 percent of
those not registered with one of those parties did participate.
Officials attribute some of the lack of voting to Oregon's new motor
voter law, which has automatically registered hundreds of thousands of
people as new voters."